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Laraue Software Blog — C# .NET Development & Open Source

Real code, real decisions, real tradeoffs. We write about what we build — .NET libraries, Telegram bots, AI integrations, and the architecture mistakes worth learning from.

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Saving media from a Telegram bot — store the preview, stream the original

Part 11 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. Teaching the capture bot to handle photos and video, and the storage decision behind it — keep small previews on disk, stream full files straight from Telegram on demand without buffering them in memory, using nginx range-request passthrough, instead of re-hosting everything.

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Deploying a Nuxt Telegram Mini App. Setting up HTTPS on nginx with Let's Encrypt. A new mini app via BotFather

Part 7 of building a Telegram task tracker solo. How to deploy a Nuxt Mini App with the nginx + HTTPS + Let's Encrypt combo, set up automatic certificate renewal with certbot, register the mini app in BotFather, and test it locally through ngrok.

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